On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Joey Hess wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: > > 7.8 > > New `Built-Using' field, which must be used to document the > > source packages for any binaries that are incorporated into this > > package at build time. This is used to ensure that the archive > > meets license requirements for providing source for all binaries. > > It seems that this was intended to apply to standalone binaries embedded > into things like d-i initrds (which already use it), but as it's written > it seems to apply to static linking of libraries as well.
This sort of sounds like Built-Using: only needs to contain things which the package doesn't already Depends: (or perhaps even Recommends:) on. [Which would resolve the archive licensing requirements.] Don Armstrong -- America was far better suited to be the World's Movie Star. The world's tequila-addled pro-league bowler. The world's acerbic bi-polar stand-up comedian. Anything but a somber and tedious nation of socially responsible centurions. -- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p122 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120919170139.gv8...@rzlab.ucr.edu
